At Ogden, United States, last night, the women's compound trio of Jhano Hansdah, Gagandeep Kaur and Manjudha Soy settled for a silver medal on the concluding day of the Archery World Cup Stage 3 competition. According to information received at Kolkata, the American team of Erika Anschutz, Christie Colin and Jamie van Natta dominated the match from the beginning to beat the Indians in the final by a hadsome margin of 229 to 218. India, who had a fine chance of notching up four gold and one bronze medals, thus lost all their decisive matches to settle for four silver to finish fifth in the standings.Powered by Brady Ellison's three-gold medal effort in the men's recurve section, the hosts topped the table withseven gold, two silver and one bronze.Earlier on the penultimate day, India had lost the finals in the women's team, individual and mixed pair eventsof the recurve sections, with Deepika Kumari squandering a golden chance of a hattrick of gold at the World Cup.
News On AIR | August 7, 2011 6:34 PM
Archery World Cup Stage 3 competition: Indian women archers win silver medal